Derek Tsang
- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung is a Hong Kong film director and actor. The son of actor Eric Tsang, Tsang got his start in the Hong Kong film industry working for director Peter Chan Ho-Sun after graduating from the University of Toronto Scarborough in 2001. He made his acting debut in Men Suddenly in Black (2003) and directorial debut with Lover's Discourse (2010), sharing the directing credit with Jimmy Wan Chi-Man. The duo was nominated for a Golden Horse Award for Best New Director in 2010.
His solo directorial debut Soul Mate (2016) was critically praised, receiving a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film nomination at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. His next film Better Days (2019) was the Hong Kong submission for the Academy Awards and received a Best International Feature Film nomination, becoming the first Hong Kong submission directed by a Hong Kong native to do so. Tsang said his influences are primarily derived from art-house cinema, with early influences from director Wong Kar-Wai and the French New Wave, as opposed to his father's works, which consisted of mostly of mainstream comedies.
Tsang married actress Venus Wong Yik-Man in 2019. He has expressed a reluctance to cast Wong due to the negative perception of nepotism.
His solo directorial debut Soul Mate (2016) was critically praised, receiving a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film nomination at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards. His next film Better Days (2019) was the Hong Kong submission for the Academy Awards and received a Best International Feature Film nomination, becoming the first Hong Kong submission directed by a Hong Kong native to do so. Tsang said his influences are primarily derived from art-house cinema, with early influences from director Wong Kar-Wai and the French New Wave, as opposed to his father's works, which consisted of mostly of mainstream comedies.
Tsang married actress Venus Wong Yik-Man in 2019. He has expressed a reluctance to cast Wong due to the negative perception of nepotism.
